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Flowering Period

Fruit

Seeds

Viability of Seeds

Propagation

Occurrence

Habitat

Waste land, road sides and orchards, rangeland in the North American prairie.

Soil

B. tectorum prefers fertile, warm, rather dry, sandy to loamy soils.

Agricultural Importance

Incidence of B. tectorum worldwide in cereal growing areas. Infestation with Downy brome can lead to significant yield losses.

Control

Useful non-chemical contribution to Integrated Weed Management

Moldboard plowing in the fall after winter wheat, optimizing crop competitiveness, crop rotation, e.g. a competitive fall-seeded noncereal crop, such as winter rapeseed or canola. The previously practiced burning of infested field provided valuable control but does not comply with anti-pollution and carbon dioxide avoidance considerations.